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    Article EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY. ← Page 2 of 5 →
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.

days , there are few that still retain so many of its former quaint nooks and corners . As the great highway between the cities of London and Westminster , Fleet Street has always played a conspicuous part in the history of our metropolis , and many a grand or strange eventful scene

has it witnessed . One time , mid all the bravery of flags and banners , one of our sovereigns has made a royal progress through it eastward ; another time , it has looked on pitifully while the fair Eleanor Cobham paced its whole length barefoot , in a white shift , and staggering under a huge wax candle , on her way to the Cathedral of St .

Paul ' s , there to do penance for her supposed connection with witchcraft . Rows innumerable have occurred within its precincts . Thus , in 1458 , a fierce squabble took place between the citizens and the Templars , and the " Queen ' s Attornie" was killed , even the patience of the gentle Henry of Windsor being sorely tried by so untoward

an event . What it was in the days of the first James is known to all readers of "The Fortunes of Nigel , " but some idea of the unruly licence that then prevailed may be gathered from the fact that in 1621 , when three prentices were ordered to be whipped from Aldgate to Temple Bar for having abused Gondomar , the Spanish Ambassador ,

their fellow prentices turned out in full force in Fleet Street and rescued them , the Marshal ' s men being severely beaten and sent to the rightabout . Six years later , when Charles I , was king , a collision occurred between the Templar Lord of Misrule and the Lord Mayor , to the exceeding detriment of the former , who was compelled to pay a

round fine and make good the damage he had done to the bars and bolts of the worthy citizens' domiciles . The pillory stood here in Charles II . ' s time ; while in the days of good Queen Anne it was infested day and night , but especially during the latter , by those terrible fellows , the Mohocks .

Then , many an honoured name in English annals has figured m connection with this ancient thoroughfare , from Chaucer , father of English poetry , who beat a Franciscan friar and was fined two shillings for the offence by the Society of the Inner Temple , to Sir John Oldcastle , Baron Cobham , temp . Henry IV ., who suffered martyrdom for

his religious scruples , and whose house stood near the Fleet Street end of Chancery Lane ; to Richard Pynson , who had worked at Caxton ' s . In 1483 , he published at his stall or shop by St . Dunstan ' s Church his " Dives et Pauper , " the first book ever printed in this neighbourhood ; and in 1497 , an edition of Terence , the first Latin classic printed in

England . Tyndale , translator of the New Testament , did duty as a clergyman in this same church of St . Dunstan ' s , round about which also lived Thomas Marsh , of the Prince ' s Arms , who published "Stow ' s

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THE ROMAN COLLEGIA. Article 1
HISTORY OF THE ANCHOR AND HOPE LODGE, No. 37, BOLTON. Article 8
THE HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY. Article 10
AUDI, VIDE, TACE! Article 15
CURIOUS BOOKS. Article 16
CRAFT CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT STONEHEWERS, MASONS, AND CARPENTERS. Article 18
THE EARLY BUILDERS. Article 28
AUTUMN THOUGHTS. Article 31
THE CONSTITUTIONS OF 1762, Article 32
REGULATIONS AND CONSTITUTIONS. Article 33
THE GILDS.* Article 43
FREEMASONRY REDIVIVA. Article 47
EARLY HAUNTS OF FREEMASONRY. Article 49
AN OLD WORTHY. Article 54
THE GAVEL. Article 57
THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 58
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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.

days , there are few that still retain so many of its former quaint nooks and corners . As the great highway between the cities of London and Westminster , Fleet Street has always played a conspicuous part in the history of our metropolis , and many a grand or strange eventful scene

has it witnessed . One time , mid all the bravery of flags and banners , one of our sovereigns has made a royal progress through it eastward ; another time , it has looked on pitifully while the fair Eleanor Cobham paced its whole length barefoot , in a white shift , and staggering under a huge wax candle , on her way to the Cathedral of St .

Paul ' s , there to do penance for her supposed connection with witchcraft . Rows innumerable have occurred within its precincts . Thus , in 1458 , a fierce squabble took place between the citizens and the Templars , and the " Queen ' s Attornie" was killed , even the patience of the gentle Henry of Windsor being sorely tried by so untoward

an event . What it was in the days of the first James is known to all readers of "The Fortunes of Nigel , " but some idea of the unruly licence that then prevailed may be gathered from the fact that in 1621 , when three prentices were ordered to be whipped from Aldgate to Temple Bar for having abused Gondomar , the Spanish Ambassador ,

their fellow prentices turned out in full force in Fleet Street and rescued them , the Marshal ' s men being severely beaten and sent to the rightabout . Six years later , when Charles I , was king , a collision occurred between the Templar Lord of Misrule and the Lord Mayor , to the exceeding detriment of the former , who was compelled to pay a

round fine and make good the damage he had done to the bars and bolts of the worthy citizens' domiciles . The pillory stood here in Charles II . ' s time ; while in the days of good Queen Anne it was infested day and night , but especially during the latter , by those terrible fellows , the Mohocks .

Then , many an honoured name in English annals has figured m connection with this ancient thoroughfare , from Chaucer , father of English poetry , who beat a Franciscan friar and was fined two shillings for the offence by the Society of the Inner Temple , to Sir John Oldcastle , Baron Cobham , temp . Henry IV ., who suffered martyrdom for

his religious scruples , and whose house stood near the Fleet Street end of Chancery Lane ; to Richard Pynson , who had worked at Caxton ' s . In 1483 , he published at his stall or shop by St . Dunstan ' s Church his " Dives et Pauper , " the first book ever printed in this neighbourhood ; and in 1497 , an edition of Terence , the first Latin classic printed in

England . Tyndale , translator of the New Testament , did duty as a clergyman in this same church of St . Dunstan ' s , round about which also lived Thomas Marsh , of the Prince ' s Arms , who published "Stow ' s

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